TY - RPRT

T1 - Invading Bologna

T2 - Prospects for Nordic Cooperation on Professional Military Education

AU - Schaub Jr, Gary John

AU - Breitenbauch, Henrik Ø.

AU - Pradhan-Blach, Flemming

PY - 2013/8

Y1 - 2013/8

N2 - European NATO nations need better staff officers. Operation Unified Protector exposed a widespread deficiency in the professional knowledge of field-grade European officers. Professional military education (PME) is where corrective Alliance action must focus. The Nordic countries—Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland—have conducted joint training courses for decades and are considering ways to facilitate cooperation in the education of the field-grade officers that would populate the staff of any future NATO-led expeditionary operation. We suggest three alternative paths that increased cooperation in PME at the level of the command and staff course could take: a Nordic Defence College, standardized national command and staff courses, and a core curriculum of common courses for common purposes. We conclude with a discussion of how the Alliance can facilitate clusters of cooperation between strategically proximate groups of Allies to improve their number of knowledgeable and skilled staff officers.

AB - European NATO nations need better staff officers. Operation Unified Protector exposed a widespread deficiency in the professional knowledge of field-grade European officers. Professional military education (PME) is where corrective Alliance action must focus. The Nordic countries—Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland—have conducted joint training courses for decades and are considering ways to facilitate cooperation in the education of the field-grade officers that would populate the staff of any future NATO-led expeditionary operation. We suggest three alternative paths that increased cooperation in PME at the level of the command and staff course could take: a Nordic Defence College, standardized national command and staff courses, and a core curriculum of common courses for common purposes. We conclude with a discussion of how the Alliance can facilitate clusters of cooperation between strategically proximate groups of Allies to improve their number of knowledgeable and skilled staff officers.

KW - Faculty of Social Sciences

KW - NATO

KW - Professional Military Education

KW - cooperation

KW - Nordic

KW - Bologna -deklarationen

KW - Higher Education

M3 - Report

SN - 9788773937020

BT - Invading Bologna

PB - Center for militære studier

CY - Kbh.

ER -